When I was 7 years old, Jackie Robinson joined the Brooklyn Dodgers and became the first African American to play in the major leagues. He was truly one of the game’s greatest players. He could hit ...

A Day of Reflection and Inspiration. Introduction. 78 years ago, Jackie Robinson made history by becoming the first African American to b ...

2006 — Julio Franco became the oldest player in major league history to hit a home run when he hit a two-run, pinch-hit shot ...

Using Major League Baseball as a case study, Cornell research highlights potential shortcomings in diversity metrics that ...

A version of this story originally appeared on MiLB.com in 2018. We present it here as Major League Baseball celebrates ...

At a time when the Trump administration is ordering a review of how history is depicted in the Smithsonian Institution, ...

Even before the current attack on diversity, major-league clubs have been slow to increase minority representation.